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September 30, 1911

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    She looks more like a legal eagle up at the Kings Inns! Very good shot though.
  • La Belle Province said:
    The quality of mercy is not strained.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    La Belle Province "... It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes ..."
  • Niall McAuley said:
    She has a page at thepeerage: born 1888, married Windham Baring in 1913, 3 children Robin, Mark and Patrick. Husband died in 1922, she remarried to Ralph Henry Voltelin Cavendish in 1926, and had another son Edward Simon Myles Cavendish. She lived until 1984!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Keep up the great work, much appreciated.

Delegates at Lord Bessborough's

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Edward Ponsonby was 8th Earl of Bessborough from 1906 to 1920 (at thepeerage dot com.)
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    They are at Bessborough House in Piltdown, Kilkenny.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    OSI 25" of the colossal house.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The gent with the white whiskers could be Eddie, portrait here at the National Portrait Gallery (not ours, theirs!), from 1917.
  • John Spooner said:
    Bessborough House was burned down on Thursday 22nd February 1923. "The fire raged throughout Friday, the flames being visible for miles around. Everything in the residence was destroyed. [...] Nothing but the charred walls remain of the once beautiful mansion" Kilkenny Moderator - Saturday 03 March 1923

Indoor Servants at Bessborough House

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • XPAT-Polska said:
    It's a grand shot for sure.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Jug-ears at the back there looks familiar. Did we have him in a different photo?
  • Probable Ice said:
    no kitchen staff in this one. even among the servants there was a class system. wonderful picture.
  • derangedlemur said:
    I think I've seen him (or someone who looked like him) in a WWI photo somewhere.
  • Micheál Cattigan said:
    wild guess; Back row 2nd from left. driver.